Faculty Resources
Welcome to the Faculty Resources page for UTRGV’s College of Sciences. This comprehensive hub is designed to support faculty in their professional development and academic endeavors. Here, you’ll find essential guidelines for annual evaluations, tenure, and promotion reviews, along with governance documents, committee assignments, and university-wide resources. Empowering excellence in teaching, research, and service, our faculty resources ensure a thriving academic community at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
College Guidelines
- College Guidelines for Annual Reviews
- College Guidelines for Tenure & Promotion Reviews
- College Guidelines for Post-Tenure Reviews
University and Faculty Resources
- Office of the EVPAA Faculty Resources
- Handbook of Operating Procedures
- College of Sciences Organizational Chart
- UTRGV College of Sciences Bylaws
Travel Support
Planning to present your research at a conference? The College of Sciences has travel funds available to support your attendance to academic conferences and professional meetings. Applicants must be tenured/tenure-track faculty, postdoctoral researchers, or professors of practice with ≥20% research appointment in the College of Sciences.
Excellence Awards
Faculty
- Excellence in Teaching – Dr. Shaghayegh Setayesh, SMSS
- Excellence in Research/Scholarship/Creative Activity – Dr. Erin Easton, SEEMS
- Excellence in Student Mentoring – Dr. Kaitlyn Serbin, SMSS
- Excellence in Community Engagement – Dr. Juan Gonzalez, SEEMS
- Excellence in Service – Dr. Christopher Gabler, SEEMS
- Excellence in Faculty Mentoring – Dr. Josef Sifuentes, SMSS
- Undergraduate Coordinator Excellence Award – Dr. Tobias Weinrich, SIBCS
- Graduate Coordinator Excellence Award – Dr. Sergey Grigorian, SMSS
Staff
- Mr. Thomas Eubanks, Senior Engineering Technician, CoS Dean’s Office
- Ms. Olivia Gonzalez, Administrative Assistant II, SMSS